Testing trains, tracks and systems

For Part 4 of our new-build steam locomotive projects survey, we put those replicating extinct Great Western Railway designs under the microscope.

The town of Merthyr Tydfil is situated on the northern edge of the South Wales coalfield in a basin of the Taff valley some 25 miles from Cardiff; it was once so famous for its iron and steel industry

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone! British Rail’s High Speed Train fleet revolutionised and transformed inter-city travel when it was first introduced into service on BR’s Western Region i